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| author | Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> | 1998-09-19 19:15:08 +0000 |
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| committer | Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> | 1998-09-19 19:15:08 +0000 |
| commit | 03ba4131783cc9e872f8bb26a03f15bc11f27564 (patch) | |
| tree | 88db8dba75ae06ba3bad08e42c5e52efc162535c /Documentation/filesystems/umsdos.txt | |
| parent | 257730f99381dd26e10b832fce4c94cae7ac1176 (diff) | |
- Merge with Linux 2.1.121.
- Bugfixes.
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/umsdos.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/umsdos.txt | 18 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/umsdos.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/umsdos.txt index 9dda08913..c253708f3 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/umsdos.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/umsdos.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ and has some KNOWN BUGS (and quite a few unknown :-). Please read fs/umsdos/README-WIP.txt for more information on current status. Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Very short explanation for the impatient!!! +Very short explanation for the impatient! Umsdos is a file system driver that run on top the MSDOS fs driver. It is written by Jacques Gelinas (jacques@solucorp.qc.ca) @@ -24,9 +24,7 @@ There is plenty of documentation on it in the source. A formatted document made from those comments is available from sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Filesystems/umsdos. -Mostly... - -You mount a DOS partition like this +You mount a DOS partition like this: mount -t umsdos /dev/hda3 /mnt ^ @@ -41,7 +39,7 @@ the default. After doing the mount on a DOS partition, nothing special happens. This is why all mount options are passed to the msdos fs driver. Umsdos uses a special DOS file --linux-.--- to store the information -which can't be handle by the normal MsDOS file system. This is the trick. +which can't be handled by the normal MS-DOS filesystem. This is the trick. --linux-.--- is optional. There is one per directory. @@ -65,12 +63,12 @@ A compiled version is available in umsdos_progs-0.7.bin.tar.gz. So in our example, after mounting mnt, we do -umssync . + umssync . This will promote this directory (a recursive option is available) to full -umsdos capabilities (long name ...). A ls -l before and after won't show -much difference however. The files which were there are still there. But now -you can do all this: +umsdos capabilities (long name, etc.). However, an "ls -l" before and after +won't show much difference. The files which were there are still there, but +now you can do all this: chmod 644 * chown you.your_group * @@ -94,7 +92,7 @@ after the "mount -a": (You put one for each umsdos mount point in the fstab) -This will insure nice operation. A umsdos.fsck is in the making, +This will ensure nice operation. A umsdos.fsck is in the making, so you will be allowed to manage umsdos partitions in the same way other filesystems are, using the generic fsck front end. |